Receive customized support to transform your science classroom into an engaging space where students are actively figuring out scientific ideas as they ask questions, analyze data, and develop models to explain phenomena or solve problems.
Our Phenomena-Driven Approach
MMSA’s professional learning emphasizes phenomena and design problems as the driving force for instruction. This research-backed approach, embraced by NGSS and OpenSciEd, is effective because it:
Makes instruction more equitable by connecting to students’ lived experiences, interests, and questions while highlighting the real-world relevance of science.
Deeply engages students in their learning, fostering curiosity, inquiry, and agency as they develop a broad and transferable skillset.
Empowers students to become active learners and problem-solvers, making sense of the world through evidence-based reasoning.
Customized Support
As educators, we know how overwhelming NGSS and OpenSciEd can be. MMSA consultants specialize in navigating you through these resources to be able to confidently implement teaching strategies.
Together, we create a support package using a combination of the services below to meet you where you are and help you reach your goals.
- Professional Development
- Coaching Support
- Technical Assistance
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Professional Development Pathways
Choose from our science support pathways, centered on a series of interactive sessions.
- Instructional Routines to Support Science Sensemaking
Intended to support those working to increase alignment with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in their classrooms. - OpenSciEd Curriculum Launch & Ongoing Support
An offering for schools already using NGSS that are ready to adopt OpenSciEd into their curricula. Try a single unit, learn about specific topics to complement your existing instruction, or fully implement the OpenSciEd curriculum. - Comprehensive STEM Alignment: Strengthen your school’s STEM instruction by aligning math, science, and related subjects across and within grade level.
These learning pathways support K-12 science educators across all subjects, including life, physical, earth, and space sciences, as well as engineering, with modified learning models by grade level.
Meet Your Science Consultants
As your partners, our science specialists work with you to guide you toward your vision of what you want your science classroom to look and feel like.
Science Programs Team Lead
STEM Education Specialist
Let's Transform Your Science Classroom Together
Contact us to explore how we can partner with you. We’ll start by identifying your strategic goals and what you want science to look and feel like in your classrooms, and build from there.
Questions? Contact Shelby Dillman at sdillman@mmsa.org.
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Our experiences with our MMSA professional learning sessions enabled us to start the important conversations that we haven’t had for a long time. Students truly are different types of learners now than in the past and we need to find ways to engage and include them in their learning.
MMSA’s professional learning and coaching process has been invaluable. I am a far better teacher because of MMSA!
MMSA has encouraged me to think more deeply about the topics I'm teaching and even push my own knowledge to the next level, just what we want our students to do! I continue to attend events and professional development by MMSA because they are always full of positive energy and relevant, research-supported information that I can bring back to my colleagues and classroom.